What is a horror movie?

The personal convention of a horror movie:
Horror movies tell a story while, through out the film, try to achieve one objective. This objective is to scare the audience. Horror movies attempt to provoke emotions of fear, horror and terror from the viewers. The plot usually involves themes of death, the supernatural or mental illness.
The audience usually receives a vicarious thrill through witnessing a story that deals with the fears of the audience as it places us in situations we would not usually experience, or wish to experience. The audience holds no control over the situation and as the conclusion of a characters life draws near the audience begins to receive an adrenalin kick which is what the audience wishes to see.

The ideological conventions of a horror movie:
The implicit (hidden) or explicit (obvious) messages are rooted inside the narrative, as to provide ideologies so that the audience is made to believe that the people who abide to the rules are the ones who survive. There are themes of punishment, rejection and/or revulsion at subject which move away from ‘correct’ thinking for example the girl who indulges in alcohol and sex is probably the one who will die early on however the innocent girl who does none of these things will not die at all. Horror movies tend to up hold dominate ideologies by taking people who are not like us, e.g. patients from a mental hospital, and making them the killer within a movie because they are not like us and thereby different and should be feared.

Intro to stills camera (brief account of our lesson)

A camera captures light which then goes onto a photographic film which then can create the picture. When beginning to learn about how to create a good picture, we were told that if we wished to create a good picture we needed to be alert the following topics, which were the hotspots, zoom, focus, angle and lighting. They are all factors which can improve the overall image as they take into account the variation of objectives which are needed to make a good picture. For example, with the hotspots we followed the rule of third so that there is not a big empty space within the image which makes the picture appear boring. While using a tool such as focus we can also create a multiple layered picture were something behind something less in the picture is in focus so that it draws the attention of the eye were as the object in front does not as it is not in focus. We could have also used angle to give an object a level of status. For example a low level shot could give the impression the status of the object is very high. However, a high angle shot could give us the impression that we are higher status than the object. Lighting can create the mood and feeling of the shot. For instance if we took a picture of a person with soft light we would make the person feel more delicate or look even more beautiful.